We look forward to the future and to analyzing data collected under a Uniform Data Standard policy guided by a site and histology definition for these devastating tumors.

2005-2006 Statistical Report
The CBTRUS 2005-2006 Statistical Report: Primary Brain Tumors in the United States Statistical Report, 1998-2002 (Years Data Collected) is available on our Reports and Tables Web page.

Recently Published
CBTRUS is pleased to announce the publication of a manuscript in the July 2006 Issue of Neuroepidemiology:

Title: Average Years of Potential Life Lost in Those Who Have Died from Brain and CNS Tumors in the United States
Authors: Shalini Thuppal, Jennifer M. Propp, Bridget J. McCarthy
Final Citation: Neuroepidemiology 2006;27:22-27.
DOI: 10.1159/000093896
Publisher: Karger Publishers


CBTRUS is pleased to announce the publication of two manuscripts in the January 2006 Issue of Neuro-Oncology:

Title: Descriptive epidemiology of vestibular schwannomas
Authors: Jennifer M. Propp, Bridget J. McCarthy, Faith G. Davis, and Susan Preston-Martin
Source: Neuro-Oncology 8(1):1-11.
DOI: 10.1215/S1522851704001097
Publisher: Duke University Press

and

Title: Temporal trends in incidence of primary brain tumors in the United States, 1985–1999
Authors: Sara Hoffman, Jennifer M. Propp, and Bridget J. McCarthy
Source: Neuro-Oncology 8(1):27-37.
DOI: 10.1215/S1522851705000323
Publisher: Duke University Press

Visiting Clinicians
We are pleased to have had Dr. P.G. Balagopal from the Medical College in Trivandrum, India, training with us for a few weeks in the spring of 2006. Dr. Balagopal is a neurosurgeon who is in charge of starting a population-based brain tumor registry in his country. In August 2005, we had a similar training experience with a neurosurgeon from the University Hospital, Montpellier, France— Dr. Luc Bauchet— who is establishing a brain tumor registry in his country.

Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium (BTEC)
The Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium (BTEC) had its sixth meeting on September 26-27 in Chicago, Illinois. One of the aims of the Fall 2005 meeting was to bring together neuropathologists, epidemiologists, and related multidisciplinary scientists with a common interest in brain tumor research to discuss diagnostic classification issues as they relate to retrospective and prospective multi-institutional studies.

Since its initial meeting at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), BTEC has moved forward its goal to establish multi-centered collaborations that will lead to a better understanding of the causes and risk factors involved in the development of pediatric and adult brain tumors. It is a self-directed group and was formed after an initial meeting at NCI in February 2003. The CBTRUS provides BTEC with business support, including meetings arrangements, and has helped secure funding from the National Brain Tumor Foundation, the American Brain Tumor Association, the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States, The Preuss Foundation, and NeoPharm, Inc. for conferences and travel awards.

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